In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom--I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm...
Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the alre...
A smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile.
Seriously, the banker went on, what do you investigate? I have a feeling you do more than find stray kittens and bring home lost babies.Murder.
Gentlemen’s clubs—now there was a ridiculous euphemism
You want to know the definition of a consultant? A guy who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is.
Some are just businessmen.
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During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.
Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel, he says.
Dead … might not be quiet at all.
A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.
We were too young- and the ground too muddy- for our small part of the earth to move.
This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person's self respect
So you’re positive the killer is a man.Yes, I think my gender can take responsibility for this one. Women don’t cut out other women’s hearts.We can.
She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.
Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm.
Months earlier with Kristin,